Will Technology Make Us Dumber?

Smarter and dumber are overly broad.

There is an old adage (outside the carwash)

Rain will not clean a dirty car.

Rain will not dirty a clean car.

The same applies to Television

heretofore called, the Boob Tube.

Turning the TV on will not make you dumber

Turning the TV off will not make you smarter

Technology, for the user, simply involves less brain

application. The Brain may atrophy.

However, we as a society, have chosen to redefine

intelligence on other matters related to same

Musical intelligence

Athletic intelligence

Artistic intelligence.

As the definition of the word genius, once applied

to meeting a certain criteria in a specific area, has

been expanded beyond recognition, intelligence has

gone through the same metamorphosis.

Evolution--or devolution depending on your philosophical

bent or what you have to sell.

Technology is a tool. Just like a shovel.

Using a shovel may make me stronger if I am digging

ditches, but operating a backhoe to achieve the same

result will only get the job done more efficiently.

It won't make me stronger, only atrophy my muscles

Best wishes,

Sincerest regards,

Slim.

Robert Asken

Box 33

Pen Argyl, PA

18072

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Not for the G 20 Only

My PowerPoint presentation, The Future of the G 20 in Good Times and Bad is not the final word on the subject.  It was designed to serve  as a point of departure for the EuroCrats to find the best road into the future.

This is the reason why.  And if you dispute me, I shall point to the Occupy Wall Street Movement as a more than substantial Road Sign.

The Zero Sum Game is no longer viable.  Saddam Hussein, Mubarak, Gaddafi are part of what people are calling The Arab Spring.  I call it, The Path of the Trajectory.

"That one cannot predict the future is not the proper response to the one who tells you to get off the tracks--the train is coming."--Slim Fairview

Previously,  I discussed, resources.  I cited:  Energy, Pharmaceuticals, and Agriculture.  Oil, Medicine, and Food in simplest terms.  In my monograph on "Soft War" I indicated that the control and allocation of these resources will become more crucial.  However, there are other resources to be concerned about:


Water
Technology
Information
Validation


It is the last one I am concerned with here.  VALIDATION!


Unity will be paramount.  Not EuroUnion style unity, but the style of unity built upon a bedrock of expediency.  (The Future of the G 20--If there is one.)


World Leaders sitting in a circle behind their nation's flags, is an engineered impediment to unity.  I will make that painfully clear to the World Leaders et. al.


The Analogy:


When the typewriter was invented, the technology was not adequate to accommodate the speed of the typist.  The machines jammed.  The solution?  The QWERTY  keyboard to slow the typist down to the level of the machine.


World Leaders are the Technology.
People are the Typists.


This was illuminated in my monograph: A New World Order--A World Without Borders.


As world leaders are sitting in a circle, hiding behind flags, humanity is bonding through a virtual citizenship.  The new nation?  NETOPIA.


The World's Population is not wrapped in a variety of flags.


World Leaders are in hot pursuit of Symbolic Gestures. Individuals, people, are in hot pursuit of substantive gains.  Guess who wins?


While The EuroCrats are wallowing in a discussion about The Greek Debt Crisis and Business Leaders are still discussing whether or not social media reduces productivity, The Hip, Cutting Edge, Tech People like me are blogging.


These matters have been discussed on my blog.  It should not be necessary for me to hold anyone's hand and lead him down the blog with a series of Tweets with Links.


Witness the Greek Riots, Witness the OWS movement, Witness the Path of the Trajectory (also known as  The Arab Spring).


Bon Chance.


Sincerest regards,


Slim


slimfairview@yahoo.com


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Publishing: The Silent Film Industry of Publishing

 

Commentary on Global Political and Economic Events by Slim Fairview Please also see also http://sidestreetjournal.blogspot.com  Please do click the follow button for Slimviews--and please email a link to your friends.  Thank you.

Slim

Would silent films have had any success after talkies came out if the silent film makers began making silent movies in colour?

Will the publishing industry survive technology if the publishing industry comes up with clever new ways of doing the same old stuff?

I know, I know, I've heard it before.  The Publishers are doing a bang up job. Business is good.



The Metaphor:


"Don't tell me how to run my business you rapscallion.  My Great Grandpa started the Corn Cob Shipping and Delivery Company nearly a hundred and fifty years ago. 


We're the only shipping company in the surrounding 11 counties and the only company to ship U-Needa Biscuits in the surrounding 17 counties. 


I'm not gonna have some whippersnapper come in here and tell me I gotta buy no new fangled motor car to stay in business.  We been delivering U-Needa biscuits by horse and wagon fer 150 years and we'll keep right on doing it that way fer another 150 years.  Now git, you varmint."


Enough said?  No.  Enough said!


Sincerest regards,


Slim

PS. I am not Paul Harvey.  Still, I am open to becoming a paid blogger, columnist, or commentator.

In the meantime, if anyone finds the monographs on my blog to be especially helpful, please do not hesitate to send me on of those tricked out laptops and few dollars tucked into the envelope with the thank you note.

Sincerely  

Slim

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Designing Qualified Employees for the Renewable Energy Industry

On the news: A report on the two-year degree tech employee.

Part of the problem with the lack of qualified employees in the tech industry, specially the renewable energy industry, is the self-defeating ideas about qualified employees and schooling.

Our renewable energy industry may go out of business waiting to convince the public of the need for tech education then waiting for the supply of educated applicants to rise to meet demands in hiring.

The energy industry, (renewables) may just have to man up and own up to the fact that the traditional pipeline of qualified employees has gone the way of the dinosaur. (Allusion to oil intended.) What the renewable energy industry has to do is to educate and or train the needed employees themselves. Get rid of the "stuck in the mud" mentality of credentialism.

The programmes and solutions floating around have the same odious flavour of the Jimmy Carter job training idea of reducing (double-digit) unemployment: Tax business, to train people for jobs that won't exist because business can't afford to hire people due to higher taxes.

Real employers, with real jobs, train their own people. Energy does not get a magical pass. Hire people with the capability to learn the job. Put them through an on-the-job training programme to handle the mechanical aspects and an educational programme to educate them to the technical aspects.

It is analogous to the Theory plus Case Method of education

Good luck.

Slim

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